📚 Books

Author Marie Kondo Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 24/08/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Start by discarding by category. Then organize. Organization gives the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. Tidying is not the goal. Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day. 🎨 Impressions I love this book. I think “The life-changing magic of tidying up” and “Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living” are the only books on minimalism worth reading (from a practical point). ...

Author Jason Schreier Genres Business Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~2024 🎨 Impressions The book contains a few stories about indie game developer and a few stories about big game studios. I found the indie stories more interesenting and relatable since they are closer to my situation. How I Discovered It Looking for books about indie developers. Who Should Read It? Everyone interestend in how games are developed from a hollistic rather than technical point of view. There are a few stories about indie developers that I found more interesting, since a single person or a group of people making a game is more relatable than a company of hundreds of people. ...

Author Sönke Ahrens Genres Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~07/024 🎨 Impressions This review is shorter than usual because I think that I’m not the right target for this book. People who write a lot (and thus read a lot for research and reference) will benefit much more from implementing it’s contents. I was able to benefit from some of the techniques nonetheless. How I Discovered It Can’t remember. ...

Author David Kushner Genres History Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~07/2024 🎨 Impressions This review is shorter than usual because this is not the kind of books I usually read, and I don’t have anything worth saying. As a reader I don’t have any positive or negative to say about the book (being that it’s just a recollection of historical facts). But as an aspiring Indie Game Developer I think there is value in knowing how games were made in the old days and how their development evolved through the years. If you are in the same situation as me it might be an interesting read (also Blood, Sweat, and Pixels), otherwise you can skip it. ...

Author David Allen Genres Self Help, Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 15/07/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Focus on what to do next and don’t think about the rest. What’s the next action? Make it up and make it happen 🎨 Impressions I think it’s a good book that collates all the emergent productivity hacks each one of use uses, but it merges them into a coherent system. The system in itself is very simple and could be explained in a few pages, so I think the book could have been at least 50 pages shorter especially considering that the people who need it the most might not find the time to read all of it. ...

Author Fumio Sasaki Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Minimalism is about the important things Minimalism is personal Minimalism is about true happiness and peace of mind 🎨 Impressions I love this book. It’s probably one of my favourites in the genre. The book talks about: 55+12 rules to more easily become a minimalist; the personal experience of the author and some of the philosopy behind minimalism. So you will find helpful lessons and tips that you can apply to your Minimalist journey paired with decluttering wisdom of the author. ...

Author Daniel Coyle Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 12/01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences There are no prodigies. Only cultivated talent and practice. Practice with intention (slow down, exagerate moves, introduce challenges). Hard Skills (kicking a ball) vs Soft Skills (reading the field). 🎨 Impressions A bit too short. Some chapters could have benefited from a few more words. How I Discovered It I had it in my TODOs for a while, I don’t remember. ...

Author Burton G. Malkiel Genres Finance Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~2022 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences On a long enought time horizon, nobody can beat the S&P500. Historically, the market goes up, eventually it will go down and nobody can predict when. The best investor is a dead investor. 🎨 Impressions Its a good book explaining the history of the stock market with the major bubbles and modern portfolio theory. ...

Author Matthew Walker Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖🖤🖤 Date Finished ~2023 🎨 Impressions I’ll keep the review short and concise. My first impression of the book was good. I thought that anyone striving to improve their sleep quality should have read it. But after reading the article Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors I’m not sure anymore. It seems that in the first chapter alone there are an unproportional number of uncited papers, misleading citacions, wrong percentages and factual errors. The book is now being cited as a source in various papers despite not having the save scientific accuracy of published papers. ...

Author James Clear Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished ~2022 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Habits compound over time and decay if not maintained. Focus on creating a system not a goal. The best way to change habits is to change identity. 🎨 Impressions I love this book. I actually read this book two years ago so this review is not very accurate. What is accurate is the result I achieved after reading this book (like going to the gym regularly, reading more, going outside more, working on my side projects and more…). This book literally changed my approach to improving my habits. It’s also the only one for which I have both the digital and hardcopy versions. ...